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affairs appear applied atque bear become better body called cause character circumstances common conduct considered crime danger death desire DRYDEN earl effect enjoy equal evil exist expect expression favour fear feel fortune give given hand happy heart honour hope human influence Ital labour learned live manners means mihi mind misfortunes Motto of lord nature never nihil object omnes omnia opinion Ovid pass passion person pleasure poet possess praise produce prosperity Prov quæ quam quid quod receive rendered semper sine speak suffer sunt term things tion true truth vice Virg virtue wealth wise wish
Popular passages
Page 87 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 391 - Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Page 262 - Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui deorum Muneribus sapienter uti Duramque callet pauperiem pati Peiusque leto flagitium timet, Non ille pro caris amicis Aut patria timidus perire.
Page 447 - ... rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis: at ille labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.
Page 359 - Vos plaudite' dicat, Aetatis cujusque notandi sunt tibi mores, Mobilibusque decor naturis dandus et annis. Reddere qui voces jam scit puer et pede certo Signat humum, gestit paribus colludere, et iram Colligit ac ponit temere, et mutatur in horas.
Page 448 - Vive, vale. Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti ; si non his utere mecum.
Page 306 - Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant ; Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet...
Page 341 - Quelles chimères ne tombent point dans l'esprit des hommes pendant qu'ils dorment! » Xantippe a continué de vivre, il est venu à la » cour, il a vu le prince, il lui a parlé, et il a été plus loin que son songe : il est favori.
Page 383 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Page 147 - Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Dictionary of Quotations from Various Authors in Ancient and Modern Languages, with English Translations ... |
| Author | Hugh Moore |
| Editor | Hugh Moore |
| Publisher | Whittaker, Treacher, & Company, 1831 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 507 pages |
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